NSW Workplace Surveillance Act 2005
Part 4: Covert surveillance of employees at work – NSW Workplace Surveillance Act 2005

NSW Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 s22: s 22 Security surveillance defence: sole security purpose, real risk and prior written notice

Where an employer relies on the defence for covert surveillance kept for workplace security, it must be able to prove that: the surveillance was solely to protect the security of the workplace or the people in it, with any surveillance of employees incidental to that; a real and significant risk existed that security would be compromised without covert surveillance; and the workforce there, or a body representing a substantial share of it, received written notice of the planned security surveillance before it began. A record from such surveillance that is unrelated to security is admitted against an employee in disciplinary or legal proceedings only where the desirability of admitting it outweighs the undesirability of evidence obtained that way.

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